CARPINTERIA, Calif. -- The Carpinteria Noon Rotary Club was out Friday, surveying the beach for erosion and other environmental changes. The measured Carpinteria State Beach at two locations, near ...

MLK Day comes with free state park and beach admission at 200 sites including Carpinteria State Beach. That includes several ...

From December to May, the Carpinteria beach around the seals is closed, but visitors can safely look at the seals from the Seal Watch Overlook along the Coastal View Trail. Credit: Rebecca Caraway / ...

Carpinteria, a small town some 12 miles outside Santa Barbara, says it is the home of “the world’s safest beach,” and for 90 years newspaper adverts have boasted of its clean, wide sands and lack of ...

The Santa Barbara County Fire Department, alongside the Carpinteria-Summerland and Montecito Fire Departments, are responding to an ocean rescue off-shore from Carpinteria State Beach. According to ...

Jacob is your community news reporter covering the Santa Maria Valley. Over the weekend, a dead whale washed up on Padaro Beach in Carpinteria, drawing visitors to the shoreline to check it out for ...

Diesel Slade of Carpinteria Junior Lifeguards outsprints the competition in the “A” Division Beach Flags. Slade took first place. (Barry Punzal / Noozhawk photo) Carpinteria Junior Lifeguards made a ...

David B. Goldman is a freelance writer in Santa Barbara CARPINTERIA — I can’t figure out what exactly makes this place seem like one of Southern California’s last old-fashioned beach towns. Maybe it’s ...